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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 1d

This story - see also @londoncentric.media - is really upsetting and just awful. I emailed Neil Coyle MP just now to urge him to intervene - so should YOU.

RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

'Last Wednesday, I received a call from Faye Gomes, owner of exceptional Guyanese restaurant Kaieteur Kitchen. Almost in tears, she told me she, along with 3 other food traders had been locked out of their premises at Castle Square in Elephant and Castle'

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/theres-one...

There's one week left to save one of London's best restaurants

The battle for Castle Square, and suspicious goings on in Southwark, by Jonathan Nunn and Gavin Cleaver

www.vittlesmagazine.com

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I need that GZ one.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 5d

Almost half of adults are not regularly reading by choice. @susiemesure.bsky.social reviews Ann Morgan’s new book ‘Relearning to Read’.

Read outside your comfort zone

If we’re to get back to books, then we’re going to have get used to being bewildered

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 5d

Sharing this lovely post from Richard Godwin's The Spirits - not even sure he's on here, am sure he gave up the stupor of these places years ago to do more (always very good) writing for actual money. open.substack.com/pub/thespiri...

The Spirits Anniversary Special

Ten years of The Spirits... five years on Substack

open.substack.com

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 5d

sorry, I meant cult.

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 5d

I am actually in this book club. I even wrote about it here. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/news/b...

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 5d

The alternative is refreshing my email to see if anyone has replied to any of my amazing, honest , pitches. Anyone?

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 5d

vg

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 5d

I scroll when I'm stuck on the next sentence. Which seems to be every sentence this week!

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 6d

If you want a read to mark this - try Brigitte Reimann's Siblings.

German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 6d

“This morning, Germany is one nation again.”

This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.

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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 6d

“This morning, Germany is one nation again.”

This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 6d

pernicious. sorry. but then again, there is the cryptic Monty thing which offsets the negatives.

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 6d

Of course I read this here, in something of a stupor, at 6am.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6d

Opinion: It would be a hugely welcome development to discover that we have not merely reached social media saturation point, but that the experience has been degraded to such an extent that it has shocked people out of their stupor. on.ft.com/476Dcr8

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 6d

I will read it next (ish) I promise!

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 6d

'Peckham Fruit Juices' by Mark Pearson
markpearsonartist.com

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 6d

100% this. I used to buy a coffee out maybe once a week at most. Now it's more like monthly... Happy to report my 17yo takes (my) thermos of instant to school. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What a £5 coffee (or a £100 Pizza Express) tells us about a changing Britain | Gaby Hinsliff

For many Gen Xers, it feels like we’re sliding back towards the land of our childhoods: where eating out was for special occasions, and Thermoses were king, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

www.theguardian.com

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 6d

Got to say, it's ***** from my 10yo, who is on her second listen already. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl review – dull razzle-dazzle from a star who seems frazzled

Far from the Max Martin-assisted pop juggernaut fans expected, this soft-rock paean to domestic bliss is slight on tunes and still seethes with grievance. And the less said about her fiance’s ‘magic w...

www.theguardian.com

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, Sarah Hall, who was robbed of a Booker listing IMO.

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 6d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

www.theguardian.com

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 6d

Oooh, Elizabeth Taylor, Taylor? Is that a song about the writer?

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 6d

I blame my boss.

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 6d

what if you still haven't managed to write an intro to the piece you NEED to write today, huh, Buddo?

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 7d

another sauna piece! after a weekend in Helsinki I longed to write one, but figured they really had all been done by now. for now. at least.... !

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 7d

amusing

Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 7d

I was! Deadly serious. Upshot was a GP appointment this morning - with a possible nose break you have to wait for ten days until the swelling goes, then see the ENT clinic... so, good to have avoided A&E!

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